Cock or faucet



(No Model.)

W. J. WILSON.

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No. 308.938. Patented Dec. 9, 1884`- n ya 1v/14( w Wm. effing@ l N. Farms nwxwmnugmmr. wmmgw". D. c.

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VILLIAM JAMES VILSCN, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

COCK CR FUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,938, dated December 9, 1884.

A ppiication filed May 20,1884.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JAMES WrLsoN, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cocks or Faucets; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the laccompanying drawingspf which- Figure l is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a longigitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transversesection, of a cock or basin-faucet having my invention or improvement7 the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In this coek or faucet the handle and the valve-spindle have a ball-and-socket connection, and the handle rests on and is adapted to the screw-cap of the valve-chamber in such manner that when the handle may be laid hold of and pulled down or inclined to the valvespindle in any direction laterally or longitudinally of the cook, such handle shall exert leverage or operate as a lever against the cap y io raise the valve upward ofi" its seat against the action oi' the spring, tending to force it down thereupon. From this it will be seen that the movements ofthe handle are not limited to one plane, but can be made in any plane radial to and passing through the of' the valve-spindle lengthwise thereof.

I am aware that in cocks or faucets it is not new to hinge or joint the handle tol the valvespindle, so as to enable such handle by being inclined in one plane only radial to the spindle to act as a lever to raise the valve. Vith such cocks or faucets the handle cannot be turned down or inclined in directions laterally as well as longitudinally oi the body of the faucet, as the handle can with niy invention, which enables the cocks or faucets having it to be used in situations where the others could not be to advantage.

(No model.)

In the drawings, A denotes the body of the cock or faucet; B, the valve; C, the Valvespindle; D, the operative spring, and E the screw-cap of the valve-chamber, such cap havsaid socket-piece G, within the socket b of which is the iiat ball II, through which the spindle passes and to which it is fastened by a screw, c, screwed int-o the spindle, the head of' the screw hearing on a collar, d, intervening between it and the ball. That part d of the socket-piece G which is immediately over the top ofthe screw-cap E is convex, to enable the piece G while inclined by the handle to slide on the cap a little, as may be necessary, while the valvespindle is moving rectilinearly.

I claiml. The combination of the handle F, the valve-spindle C, and the spring D, with the ball II, fixed on the spindle, and with the socket-piece G, encompassing the ball and resting upon the head or screw-cap of the valve-chamber, all .being substantially as set forth.

2. The valve-spindle C, provided at its upper part with the separable ball I-I, and its fastening-screw c, arranged as represented, in combination with the socketed piece G, surrounding the said ball and secured t0 the handle,and bearing on the screw-cap ofthe valveohambcr, all being substantially as represented.

'VvTILLIAM JAMES VILSON. 

